This week we have been very busy with our Show practice. We have been practicing all of the songs and doing runs of the script with P5 and P7.

In numeracy, we have been learning to use different strategies to add and subtract up to four-digit numbers. These strategies include partitioning, formal method, counting on/back, rounding and using number lines.

We continued writing our reports on the weather for our writing. We also began new book studies and Bug Club to develop our reading comprehension.

Today we finished our sessions of Basketball which ended very successfully.

This week has been very exciting for P6!

During our Numeracy lessons, we have begun to explore our times tables through our Multiplication Masters programme. Pupils have also been learning to partition numbers when adding and subtracting, how to add four digit numbers both with and without exchanging, and exploring that we can make the same number using many ways. We have also challenged ourselves with some problem solving questions.

We have continued to use our comprehension strategies to help us understand our novel, The BFG. On Thursday we finished reading our novel and everyone enjoyed it. We also created Hallowe’en free writing comic strips to celebrate. We began to explore Reports by exploring their features, this will allow us to create our own reports next week. Pupils have also participated in daily ERIC time, this is where everyone in class reads a book of their choice for a period of time.

During PE we have begun playing full games of Basketball which we will continue next week.

We have also had lots of time to begin our school show. We have been practising lines and songs and have been working together to create props and settings for our show.

Primary 6 have also enjoyed becoming our schools Active Travel Commanders for our Shoot To Saturn initiative for the year. P7 also joined our class to help us research Renewable energy sources and their impact for Scotland.

Finally, P6 joined with P5 and P7 to have a Hallowe’en party.